This weekly challenge is hosted by Mind over Memory You will find this piece on the Paseo Nuevo in San Sebastian, Spain. Construcción Vacía (Empty Construction) is one of a series of steel structures from 1957 by Basque sculptor Jorge Oteiza. Doesn’t it look all the more ominous and foreboding against the threatening […]
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How does one go about selecting just 10 gems! There are some glaring omissions but I’ve tried to give a geographical spread (obviously there could be 10 sites in Greece alone….or Italy….or Egypt….). There are sites here from everyone’s bucket list as well as some lesser known treasures. I’ve visited all ten, some more than […]
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Cathedral de la Encarnación de Malaga does not open onto a massive square. Nor is it situated on the highest ground in the city. So you approach it through the narrow streets of the old town. This means that it may not pack a punch with its first impression. But this is truly a beautiful […]
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This is a walk for views – views of the city, the coast, the mountains. It starts at the Roman ruins and passes by the 2 Moorish fortresses in the city and offers a great panorama of the area. Our walk begins about 450m from the cathedral at Teatro Romano. The theatre was built in […]
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Well that’s an easy one – forget about the tourist haunts and head to Malaga’s Central Market. The Mercado Central de Atarazanas occupies a site that has been in use since the 14th century. Starting out as an Arabic shipyard with water all the way to the entrance, it later served as a convent, military […]
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